2010 Oscar Predictions – A World of HURT
With all the talk of preferential voting in the Best Picture category, you think this would be the year that I would roll the dice on picking something off the wall for Oscar’s big prize. Not the case. While I’ve been MIA from the blog for a few weeks, I’ve been keeping track of The Hurt Locker‘s march toward Oscar. I don’t think I’ve ever seen a more celebrated film in all my time watching Oscar. The Hurt Locker has won every guild award for which it was nominated with the exception of SAG, MPSE, and the yet-to-be-announced ASC (American Society of Cinematographers). The Hurt Locker won over the Anglos, winning 6 BAFTA Film Awards including Best Film. It even won the critics trifecta. with LAFCA, NYFCC, and NSFC all picking it as their top picture. Sure, preferential voting means...
Read More2010 Best Picture nominee box office totals
With 10 Best Picture nominees, four of which are already on DVD, that old reliable, the post-nomination box office bump, may not be as noticeable as it once was. The Hurt Locker is still moving up the DVD sales chart at Amazon.com. Up, Inglourious Basterds, and District 9 will likely move too. For the film’s still in theaters, including Avatar (the newly crowned highest-grossing domestic release of all-time), things tend to look up, post-nomination. Avatar will likely win the weekend again this week, with Fandango reporting a 45 percent increase in ticket sales for Cameron’s epic after the nomination. What about the others? A Serious Man? An Education? Those are the types of movies that used to gain the most from a Best Picture nomination. Now that they have to compete with more pictures, who knows if that boost...
Read More2010 Oscar nominees – 9 for THE HURT LOCKER & AVATAR
Best Picture Avatar The Blind Side An Education District 9 The Hurt Locker Inglourious Basterds Precious A Serious Man Up Up in the Air Best Director Kathryn Bigelow, The Hurt Locker James Cameron, Avatar Lee Daniels, Precious Jason Reitman, Up in the Air Quentin Tarantino, Inglourious Basterds Best Actress Sandra Bullock, The Blind Side Helen Mirren, The Last Station Carey Mulligan, An Education Gabourey Sidibe, Precious Meryl Streep, Julie & Julia Best Actor Jeff Bridges, Crazy Heart George Clooney, Up in the Air Colin Firth, A Single Man Morgan Freeman, Invictus Jeremy Renner, The Hurt Locker Best Supporting Actress Penelope Cruz, Nine Vera Farmiga, Up in the Air Maggie Gyllenhaal, Crazy Heart Anna Kendrick, Up in the Air Mo’Nique, Precious Best Supporting Actor Matt Damon, Invictus Woody Harrelson, The Messenger Christopher Plummer, The Last Station Stanley Tucci, The Lovely...
Read MoreFinal 2010 Oscar nomination predictions – list
More Oscar? Full coverage of the 2010 Oscar Race here. Best Picture Avatar An Education District 9 The Hurt Locker Invictus Inglourious Basterds Precious A Serious Man Up Up in the Air In the Running: Star Trek, The Messenger, Crazy Heart, The Hangover, The Blind Side Best Director Kathryn Bigelow, The Hurt Locker James Cameron, Avatar Lee Daniels, Precious Jason Reitman, Up in the Air Quentin Tarantino, Inglourious Basterds In the Running: Anyone else? Best Actress Sandra Bullock, The Blind Side Helen Mirren, The Last Station Carey Mulligan, An Education Gabourey Sidibe, Precious Meryl Streep, Julie & Julia In the Running: Mélanie Laurent, Inglourious Basterds; Saoirse Rose, The Lovely Bones; Tilda Swinton, Julia Best Actor Jeff Bridges, Crazy Heart George Clooney, Up in the Air Colin Firth, A Single Man Morgan Freeman, Invictus Jeremy Renner, The Hurt Locker In the Running: Anyone else? Best Supporting Actress Vera Farmiga, Up in the Air Anna Kendrick, Up in the Air Diane Kruger, Inglourious Basterds Mo’Nique, Precious...
Read MoreFinal 2010 Oscar nomination predictions w/ screenplay guesses
And so D-Day arrives. That of course makes March 7, V-O Day (Victory in Oscarland), but tomorrow is where the fun begins. At 8:30 8:38 a.m. ET tomorrow, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences will announce the nominees for the 82nd Academy Awards. It will be the first time in over 65 years that 10 movies will compete for the Best Picture statue. At this point, its damn near impossible to pick all 10. We know The Hurt Locker, Avatar, Precious, Up in the Air, and Inglourious Basterds are locks. But who else? One thing you can always count on is for the Academy to be uncool. Guessing The Hangover or Star Trek, no matter how well they did in the precursors, seems unlikely. Can Up and District 9 even make the list. I’m putting them out...
Read More2010 SAG Awards: The Winners
The Screen Actors Guild Awards rarely, if ever, line up perfectly with the Academy Awards. The last time they came close was in 2005 when all the actor categories (cast excluded, but isn’t it always) matched Oscar. That’s why I’m not sold on Sandra taking the Oscar even after her first precursor win in a head-to-head competition with Meryl Streep. That’s the likeliest of mismatches, so it’s still a race in my book. No real surprises with wins for Inglourious Basterds, Bridges, Waltz, and Mo’Nique. If nothing else, Tarantino and Weinsteins can go into the final leg of the campaign with an “it’s not over till it’s over” mentality. With Basterds taking the cast award, An Education will limp into the Best Picture category, but it’s chances of making a big BAFTA-style splash seem seriously diminished. Can Molina even...
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